Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-06-13

how he looks in heaven, we can not say
a writer in the time of Christ says, de-
scribing the Saviour,s personal appear
ance, that he had blue eyes and light CON-
plexion and very graceful structure,
but suppose it was all guess work. The
painters of the different ages have tried
to imagine the features of Christ and put
them upon canvass, but we will have to
wait until with our own eyes We see Him
and with our own ears we can hear Him.
And yet there is way of seeing and hear
ing him now. l have to tell you that un-
less you see and hear Christ on earth, you
will never see and hear Him in heaven.
Look! There he is! Behold the Lamb of
God. Can you not see him? Then pray
TO God to take the scales of your eyes.
Look that way-try to look that way.
| His voice comes down 10 you this day
comes down to the blindest, to the deaf
est soul, saying: "Look unto me, all ye
ends of the earth and be saved, for l am
God, and there is none else" Proclama-
ton of
! UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATICN
for all slaves. Proclamation of univer-
sal amnesty for all rebels. Ahasuerus
gathered the Bsbylonish mobiles to his
tables; George l. entertained the Lords
of England at a banquet Napoleon Ill. vel
coined the Car of Russia and the Sultan
of Turkey to his feast: the Emperor of
| Germany was glad to have our minister,
George Bancroft, sit down with him al
his table; but tell me we who know most of
the worlds history, what other King ever
asked the abandoned, and the forlorn, and
the wretched, and the outcast, TO come
and sit down beside him? O,wonderful In
vltation! You can take it to-day, and
stand at the head of the darkest alley in
all this city and say "Come! Clothes
for your rags, selve for your sores,
throne for Your eternal reiguing."
A Christ that talks like that, and
acts like that, and pardons
like that, do you wonder that Stephen
stood looking at Him? | hope to spend
! eternity doing the same thing. | must
! see HIM must look upou that face once
| clouded with my sin, but now radiant
with nv pardon. | want to touch that
hand tat knocked off my shackles; I
want to hear that voice which pronounced
my deliverance. Behold Him, little chill
dren, for if you live to three score years
and ten you will see none so fair. Be-
hold Him, ye aged ones, for He only can
shine through the dimness of your falling
eyesight Behold Him, earth; behold
Him, heaven. What moment when ali
the nations of the saved shall gather
around Christ! All faces that way! All
thrones that way gazing, gazing on
Jesus
His worth, if all the nations knew,
sure the whole earth would love Him, too
pass on now, and look at Stephen
stoned. The world has always wanted to
get rid of good men. Their very life is
an assault upon wiCkedness. Out with
Stephen through the gates of the city.
Down with him
OVER THE PRECIPICEs.
Let every man come up and drop q
stone upon his head. But these men did
not so much Kill Stephen as they killed
themselves. Every stone rebOunded
upon them. While these murderers were
transtiXed by the scorn of all good men,
Stephen lives in the admiration of all
Christeudom. Stephen stoned; bat Ste
phen alive. So all good men must be
pelted. All who will live cody in Christ
Jesus must suffer persecution. 1t IS no
eulogy of man to say that everybody
likes him. Snow me any one who is do
ing all his duty to state or church, and
will show you scores of men who utterly |
abhOr MIN.
If ell men speak well of you it is be- !
cause you are either a leggard or dolt. |
If steamer makes rapid progress |
through the waves the water Will boil |
and foam all around it. Brave soldiers
of Jesus Christ will hear the carOines
click. When l see man with voice, and |
money, and influence all on the right side. |
and some caricsture him, and some sheer |
at him, and some denounce him, and men !
rn, 70 IN Cd hui iubr
tives COnspire TO cripple him, TO cast him |
out, to destroy him, l say "SLephen
stoned" When | see a man in some |
great moral or religious reform battling /
against grog-shOps, exposing wiCkedness !
in high places, by active means trying to /
purify the church and better the worlds |
estate, and if l find that the newspapers !
ansthematlZe him, and men, even good .
men, oppose him and dehouCCe him, be /
cause, though he does good, he does not .
do it in their way, | say: "Stephen .
stoned" The world, with infinite spite, .
took after John Frederick Oberlin, and .
Robert Moffat, and Paul, and Stephen Of ,
the text. But you notice, my friends, .
that while they assaulted him they did /
not succeed really in killing him. You +
may assault q good man, but you cannot .
kill him. On the day of his death, Ste
phen spoke before few people in the
Sanhedrim; this Sabbath m orning he
ADDRESSES ALL CHRISTENDOM.
Paul the Apostle stood on Mars Hill
addressing handful of philosophers who
knew not 50 much about science as g
modern school girl. To-day he talks 10
ali the millions of Cbristendom about the
wonders of justification and the glOries of
resurrection. John Wesley was howled
down by the mob to whom he preached,
and they threw bricks at him, aud they
denounced him, and they jostled him. and
they spat upon him, and yet to-day, in all
lands, he Is admitted to be the great
father of Methodism. Booths bullet va
Gated the Presidential chair, but from
that spot of cosgulated blood on the floor
in the box Of Ford's thester, there sprang
up the new life OF q nation. Stephen
stoned; but Stephen alive.
Pass on now, and see Stephen in his
dying prayer. His first thought was not
how the stones hurt his head, nor what
would become of his body. His first
thought was about his spirit. "LorG
Jesus, receive my spirit.' The murderer
standing on the trep-door, the black cap
being drawn over his head before the
execution, may grimace about the future;